State Of Colorado

The Colorado Division of Emergency Management, operating as a division of the State of Colorado's Department of Homeland Security and Emergency Management and headquartered in Lakewood, Colorado, is a U.S. state government entity that acts as a federal grant recipient administering FEMA disaster assistance, hazard mitigation, and emergency management programs for Colorado communities. The Division operates exclusively as a prime grant recipient (100% of recent awards) with no federal contract prime or subcontract footprint; all federal funding flows through FEMA grants administered at the state level and sub-awarded to local governments and eligible organizations.

The Division's federal funding portfolio concentrates entirely within FEMA. Of 69 awards in the source data spanning from 2005 through May 2025, 43 awards flow through FEMA Headquarters Financial Assistance Awards and 20 through FEMA directly, with 6 additional awards from the Department of Transportation's Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration. The Division's recent work anchors to four primary FEMA grant programs: the Hazard Mitigation Grants Program (HMGP and HMGP-Post Fire variants), the Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) program under CFDA 97.047, the Emergency Management Performance Grants program under CFDA 97.042, and the National Dam Safety Program (NDSP) under CFDA 97.041. Representative recent awards include a $10.45 million NDSP grant awarded September 24, 2024 (completion September 23, 2027) for high-hazard potential dam rehabilitation and emergency action plan development across Colorado; a $2.42 million Emergency Management Performance Grant awarded August 28, 2024 for disaster preparedness, response, recovery, and mitigation infrastructure; and multiple Hazard Mitigation Grants Program project grants awarded throughout 2024 and 2025 for disaster-damaged facility repair and replacement. The Division frequently sub-awards portions of these grants to local governments including the City of Lakewood and other Colorado municipalities to enable localized resilience and mitigation projects.

Activity has declined over the recent five-year period — fourteen awards in 2021, declining to one award in 2025 — and eight awards carry ultimate completion dates within the next twenty-four months, exposing the Division to potential recompete cycles for renewal or continuation funding. The Division's combined dollars obligated across all awards total $7.45 billion, reflecting the scale of disaster recovery and hazard mitigation work flowing through Colorado's state emergency management infrastructure. The Division operates under a parent-child relationship with the City of Lakewood, which holds the UEI registration; the State of Colorado Division of Emergency Management is the administrative entity executing federal grants on behalf of the state.